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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
Following on the heels of the tragic collapse of a school in Pettionville, Haiti, a second school building has partly falling in, leaving none persons injured.
According to authorities, the school, Grace Devine in Canape Vert collapsed on Wednesday, during a class.
Two students were reportedly hospitalized with severe head injuries, when seven others suffered minor injuries. Unlike the collapse in Petionville on Friday, no one was trapped in the wreckage.
Death toll rises in Petionville school collapse
Officials say 89 persons have perished from the collapse of La Promesse College and another 150 have been sustained injuries.
Rescue workers have been putting in long hour and working with through the night aided by floodlights in search of survivors from the 500 teachers and students who were in the three storey building when it came crashing down.
President Rene Préval called the incident “devastating” adding that it was heartbreaking to see the “children under the debris without being able to help them."
Préval, whose country has seen enormous tragedies in the past few months, said the rescue crews had dropped biscuits and water through openings in the wreckage to sustain children while they wait to be rescued.
The president told the Associated Press the incident is a result of poor construction methods, including a failure to use reinforced steel adding that there are several other buildings such as churches and homes that was built inadequately due to lack of code enforcement.
The United Nations has been assisting with rescue efforts, and has had to restrain distraught families whose wait to see their children has been too long.
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